With Sandy Burnett. This week featuring
Bach Christmas cantatas. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Falla Interlude and Dance (La Vida Breve) New York PO, conductor
Leonard Bernstein Bernstein La Bonne
Cuisine Roberta Alexander (soprano), Tan Crone (piano) Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Tartini Violin Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill) Andrew Manze
8.30-10.00: Bach Cantata No 63: Christen, Atzet Diesen Tag Soloists, Japan
Bach Collegium, director Masaaki Suzuki

With Jonathan Swain and Rob Cowan.
Featuring all the Beethoven symphonies over the next two weeks.
Baptiste Offertoire in D minor Christopher Herrick (organ)
10.08 Prokofiev Suite: Chout (The Tale of the Buffoon) London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
10.31 Handel Concerto Grosso in G,
Op 3 No 3 Tafelmusik, director Jeanne Lamon
10.39 Gene Roland Lonesome Train Kay Brown (vocal), Stan Kenton and his Band
10.43 Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C
Philharmonia, conductor Herbert von Karajan
11.09 Listener request: Debussy Suite Bergamasque Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
11.29 Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Czech Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Karel Ancerl

(1685-1750). Donald Macleod begins an exploration of the changing fortunes of Bach's music over the last 300 years. 1: A look at the composer's reputation during his own lifetime.
Zion Hdrt die Wichter Singen (Cantata
No 140: WachetAuf, Ruft Uns die Stimme) Peter Frank (baritone),
L'Arco Baroque Orchestra
Fantasy in C, BWV572Piet Kee (organ)
Ricecar a 6 (Musical Offering BWV1079) Rudolf Scheidegger (harpsichord)
Cantata No 201: Geschwinde, Ihr Wirbein den Winde (Phoebus and Pan) (final section) Soloists, Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra, conductor Ton
Koopman Agnus Dei ; Dona Nobis Pacem (Mass in B minor, BWV232) Michael Chance (alto), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque
Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Producer Chris Taylor See also 7.30pm
Repeated on Sunday 28 December at 12 midnight

Wallace Collection
Christopher Cook introduces the first of this week's BBC Invitation Concerts given at the Wallace Collection in London, featuring music related to artworks in the gallery. Today Liszt's musical journey through Italy isjuxtaposed with Italian scenes painted by Berchem and Scheffer. Ashley Wass (piano)
Liszt Italie (Annees de Pèlerinage, Book 2) The artworks may be viewed at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

Best of 2003: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Nan Volkov
Graeme Kay presents part of Nan Volkov 's debut concert as chief conductor of the BBCSSO, and a highlightfrom theirtripto Prague in the autumn.
Haydn Symphony No 44 in E minor (Trauer) Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1945) Berlioz Suite: Romeo and Juliet

Easter Parade. Edward Seckerson concludes his tribute to Irving Berlin.
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen. Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk
See Performance on 3 on Christmas Eve at 7.30pm

New series Over the next two weeks
Stephanie Hughes presents the best of opera on CD in 2003, including new recordings, reissues of classics, and first issues of some of the great performances of the 20th century. Today she focuses on Italian opera, including Maria Callas as Bellini's Norma and Julia Varady and Jussi Bjorling singing Verdi. Plus new recordings of Ponchielli's Marion Delorme and Franco Alfano 's Cyrano de Bergerac.

Verity Sharp presents the first of nine programmes of recent recordings by Radio 3's New Generation Artists.
Today's programme includes:
Chopin Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44 Llyr Williams (piano)
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 (Serioso) Artemis Quartet
Milhaud Suite: La Cheminée du Roi Rene
Galliard Ensemble
Bernstein I Hate Music Ailish Tynan (soprano), Llyr Williams (piano)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales Joanne Lunn (soprano), Susan Bickley
(alto), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), conductor Nicholas Kraemer
Louise Fryer introduces Bach'sjoyful cycle of cantatas celebrating the festival of Christmas. Recorded earlierthis month at
St David's Hall, Cardiff.
Bach Christmas Oratorio, BWV248

New series Joan Bakewell asks her guests what they believe, and how their beliefs impact on their life and work. 1: The first guest is writer Amy Tan. Producer Karen Maurice

The first of a series of highlights from last summer's Proms. Presented by John Shea.

Heinz Holliger (oboe), Northern Sinfonia, conductor Thomas Zehetmair (violin)

Bach Concerto in C minor for oboe and violin, BWV1060

Berio Chemins IV (based on Sequenza VII)

Stravinsky Ballet: Apollon Musagete

(Revised rpt)

Donald Macleod presents performances by Elizabeth Welch from The New Yorkers, Fred Astaire from Gay Divorce,
Gertrude Lawrence from Nymph Errant, Pearl Bailey singing Mister and Missus Fitch and excerpts from Anything Goes from
Kirn Criswell , Cris Groenendaal and Frederica von Stade with the Ambrosian Chorus and the LSO conducted by John McGlinn. Repeated from Tuesday

With John Shea.
Beethoven Piano Sonatas: in E flat, Op 2 No 1 (Quasi una Fantasia); in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight): in D, Op 28 (Pastoral) 2.00 A Stradella San Giovanni Battista 3.15 Handel In ' den
Angenehmen Buschen , HWV209
3.20 Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39
3.45Salmenhaara Concerto for two violins
4.00 Madetoja Overture, Op 7
4.10 Rubinstein, transcr Lhevinne Kammennoi Ostrov , Op 10 No 22
4.20 Schutz Vasto Mar , nel Cui Seno
4.25Corelli, arrGeminiani Concerto Grosso No 5 in G minor 4.35 Monteverdi Magnificat (Vespro delta Beata Vergine)
4.50 G Gabrieli Two Canzons
5.00 Wagner A Faust Overture 5.10 Grieg Two Lyric Pieces 5.20 Bach Toccata in C minor, BWV911 5.35 Henriques Air
5.45 Dulichius Sunt Pia Sceptra
5.50 Telemann Recorder Sonata in F minor
6.00 Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
6.40 Hotten Nowell Sing We Now
6.45 Bach Concerto in C minor for oboe and violin, BWV1060